While the website of the Palm Beach County Election Supervisor did not yet list Trump’s vote as he returned and counted, the official said the votes were returned Monday.
Under Florida law, voters are allowed to sign a confirmation that allows someone else to raise and lower their votes.
The Trumps signed confirmations and their votes were raised last week. That was after the deadline was passed for requesting a vote after an email, but the rules allow voters to record personal votes after the deadline – or send approved recipients to pick them up.
As they did in March, when they voted in the Florida presidential primary, Trump and First Lady Alejando Garcia, a Republican Party member in Florida, were named as responsible for their ballots in the signed confirmations.
Post-in ballot box fraud is very rare in part because states have systems and processes in place to prevent counterfeiting, theft and voter fraud. These systems would apply to both absentee ballots and e-mails for voters instead.
In addition, the president’s distinction between voting for mail-in and voting to absentee experts is confusing, saying that those voting systems are essentially the same.
Trump could have voted in person early in March, and early voting locations were open in Palm Beach while he visited his Mar-a-Lago resort.
But despite voting at least six times along an open space for location on the way to his golf course, Trump chose instead to use the post-in vote that was picked up and dropped by a pointer.
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